How shrink tubing affects your set-up

001 The commonly used rigs Nige put to the test to see how small changes to your shrink tubing can make a difference.

002 The top rig has a more aggressive angle created with the shrink tubing, whilst the rig at the bottom follows the curve of the hook.

003 The result in a palm test is that the more aggressive angled rig flips over much later. The gradual curved tubing turns quickly.

004 With longshank hooks, however, it’s a short piece of shrink tubing that sees the better result, turning quicker than a long piece.

005 Nige was also keen to show us how adding a Line-Aligner to the shrink tubing, as shown, could change the mechanics slightly.

006 In this test, both rigs turned more readily and earlier. How many of you are incorporating a Line-Aligner into your shrink tubing?

007 Nige also demonstrated how much longer pieces of stiff shrink tubing could totally transform a rig. It looks odd, but it can work.

008 As this reveals. The big, daft looking length of shrink tubing turned straight away. The awkwardness of the rig actually works well.